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Roman History: Bk. 56-60, v. 7 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £24.95£24.29A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
The Tragedy of Erskine Childers by Leonard Piper 9781847250209
£33.03In "The Riddle of the Sands", a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventures, as well as writing a great yachting classic... -
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution by Richard Whatmore
£45.54A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were... -
Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies by Inger Leemans 9780367219963
RRP: £37.99£33.78Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyses knowledge... -
Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe by Geert Buelens
RRP: £20.00£16.83The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. This tumult, sometimes referred to as 'the literary war', saw an extraordinary outpouring of writing. The... -
Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent by Richard J. Evans 9780521199988
RRP: £80.00£68.23In Cosmopolitan Islanders one of the world's leading historians asks why it is that so many prominent and influential British historians have devoted themselves to the study of the European continent. Books on the history of France, Germany, Italy,... -
The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Ethan H. Shagan
RRP: £22.00£17.36An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively... -
The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage by Keith Gave 9781949709582
RRP: £14.95£12.13When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could help turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron... -
The Holocaust in Greece by Giorgos Antoniou
RRP: £36.99£28.38For the sizeable Jewish community living in Greece during the 1940s, German occupation of Greece posed a distinct threat. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered around ninety percent of the Jewish population through the course of the war. This new... -
Queer Identities and Politics in Germany - A History, 1880-1945 by Clayton J. Whisnant
RRP: £35.00£27.74Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German... -
Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change by Stephen G. Gross
RRP: £35.99£31.32A novel exploration of the deeper political, economic, and geopolitical history behind Germany's daring campaign to restructure its energy system around green power. Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy... -
History of the Balkans: Volume 2 by Barbara Jelavich 9780521274593
RRP: £30.99£26.83This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience,... -
Living in Two Worlds: Diaries of a Jewish Couple in Germany and in Exile by Else Behrend-Rosenfeld
RRP: £24.99£21.58This unique collection of diaries and letters offers a vivid personal account of the experiences of a Jewish couple living parallel lives during the Second World War. While their children left for England just before war broke out, and Siegfried soon... -
Alexander the Great: A Reader by Ian Worthington
RRP: £45.99£40.53This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters... -
William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England by David C. Douglas
RRP: £27.00£21.06In "William the Conqueror", Professor Douglas analyzes the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work is both a study of Anglo-Norman history and a biography of a man whose personal career was... -
The Regions of France: A Reference Guide to History and Culture by M. Wayne Northcutt 9780313292231
£82.13This is the one reference work that French teachers, students and librarians need for student assignments on the regions of France. A one-stop, easy-to-use reference guide organized by region, it offers in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the cultural... -
Dieppe Through the Lens of the German War Photographer by Hugh G. Henry 9780900913761
RRP: £12.95£10.99The 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment was one of the first Canadian armoured regiments to be formed and was also the first to be committed to battle. The action of every one of the regiment's tanks that landed at Dieppe is described in detail by Hugh G... -
Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe by Wolfgang Behringer 9780521525107
RRP: £29.99£27.80This is a major study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. Based on an intensive search through central and local legal records for south-eastern Germany, an area extending well beyond but including present-day Bavaria,... -
Medieval Economic Thought by Diana Wood 9780521458931
RRP: £32.99£29.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Medieval Spains by Bernard F. Reilly 9780521397414
RRP: £28.99£25.82This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from a group of late Roman imperial provinces to the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies of the Trastamara and Braganza dynasties of the mid-fifteenth century. The book is planned as a... -
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua
RRP: £20.95£16.88Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeA Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistA Sheik Zayed Book Award FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Deeply thoughtful...A delight."-The... -
Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts by John C. Powers 9780226380360
RRP: £24.00£23.03In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth... -
Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941 by Sarah Davies
RRP: £22.99£19.56Between 1934 and 1941 Stalin unleashed what came to be known as the 'Great Terror' against millions of Soviet citizens. The same period also saw the 'Great Retreat', the repudiation of many of the aspirations of the Russian Revolution. The response of... -
New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England by Gill Hey 9781789252668
RRP: £38.00£34.91These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is... -
A History of Poland by Anita J. Prazmowska
£29.07Anita Prazmowska provides a wide-ranging survey of Poland's history; from early settlements, through the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland, to the present day modern state. This expanded second edition has been revised throughout in the light of the... -
Venice and Amsterdam by Peter Burke 9780745613246
RRP: £17.99£16.04Published in a thoroughly revised second edition, Venice and Amsterdam is a comparative history of the elites of these two major cities in early modern Europe.About the AuthorPeter Burke is Reader in Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College, at... -
Operation Millennium: 'Bomber' Harris's Raid on Cologne, May 1942 by Eric Taylor 9781862272309 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Operation Millennium was an extraordinary feat of organization involving 1,048 bombers, over 6,000 aircrew, and 53 British airfields. To ensure the success of this first strike of the Allied blitz, maximum effort was the order and the Royal Air Force... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe by T. C. W. Blanning 9780192854261 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.49£2.29Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book covers Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Attractively illustrated with over 200 pictures in colour and black and... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe by T. C. W. Blanning 9780192854261
RRP: £23.49£17.44Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book covers Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Attractively illustrated with over 200 pictures in colour and black and... -
The German Democratic Republic by Peter Grieder 9780230579378
£28.38A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins, development and demise of the GDR. Peter Grieder also offers an original... -
The Letters of St. Boniface by Saint,Archbishop of Mainz Boniface
RRP: £28.00£21.80St. Boniface, the early eighth-century English cleric who became known as "Apostle to the Germans," was an important agent in the conversion of the North German tribes from paganism to Christianity. His efforts were devoted as well to organizing and... -
Revolutionaries by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £11.99£6.99Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and long-standing Marxist Eric Hobsbawm is a commentary and critical retrospective on the revolutionary... -
Germany in the High Middle Ages: c.1050-1200 by Horst Fuhrmann 9780521319805
RRP: £36.99£32.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Germany in the High Middle Ages: c.1050-1200 by Horst Fuhrmann 9780521319805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £36.99£4.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Romans in 100 Facts by Jem Duducu
RRP: £8.99£6.02The Roman Empire is one of the most famous civilisations in history, and with good cause. Over a period spanning nearly 1,000 years, the Romans came, saw and conquered land after land. This book looks at Roman history from the foundation to collapse of... -
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War by Ludivine Broch
RRP: £30.99£22.85Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen -... -
The State in Early Modern France by James B. Collins 9780521130257
RRP: £30.99£25.85A new edition of James Collins's acclaimed synthesis that challenged longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy through an analysis of early modern Europe's most important continental state. Incorporating recent scholarship... -
The Enlightenment that Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830 by Jonathan I. Israel
£48.92The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level... -
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 by Alfred W. Crosby 9780521639903
RRP: £22.99£17.97Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were... -
Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire by Kim Bowes 9780715638828
£26.43Houses are often assumed to be reliable mirrors of society, fossils of family structures, social hierarchies and mental maps of worlds now vanished. This is particularly true of the elite houses of the third to sixth centuries AD, which have been read as...